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Performance Engineering of Software Systems

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States6.172
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2018English
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6.172 is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems. Topics include performance analysis, algorithmic techniques for high performance, instruction-level optimizations, caching optimizations, parallel programming, and building scalable systems. The course programming language is C.

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